1929; 1930

Manhattan: 10th Avenue - 24th Street

Tenth Avenue at N.E. corner of 24th Street, showing boys on horseback riding ahead of a freight train. Under an old New York statute, never repealed, every surface train must be preceded by one or more horseback riders, to give warning. These riders are known as "Eleventh Avenue cowboys". March 12, 1929. P. L. Sperr. (2) The same, seen across the wreckage of old London Terrace. May 31, 1930. P. L. Sperr.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection